What is the difference between stiletto and dagger?
stiletto | dagger |
A short sharp knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing.
*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 A rapier.
An awl.
A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (stiletto heel).
A beard trimmed into a pointed form.
* Ford
Sharp and narrow like a stiletto.
To attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger).
----
(weapon) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
* , Act I, Scene I, line 282.
* 1786 , , A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 34.
The text character ; the obelus.
As nouns the difference between stiletto and dagger
is that stiletto is a short sharp knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing while dagger is a stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.As verbs the difference between stiletto and dagger
is that stiletto is to attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger) while dagger is to pierce with a dagger; to stab.As an adjective stiletto
is sharp and narrow like a stiletto.stiletto
English
(wikipedia stiletto)Noun
citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto , which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
- The very quack of fashions, the very he that / Wears a stiletto on his chin.
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* stiletto heelVerb
dagger
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) dague (1229), related to (etyl), (etyl), (etyl) daga , (etyl) Degen, (etyl) . In English attested from the 1380s. The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. GrimmGrimmsuspects Celtic origin. Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia. Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique'', 1750) thought that French ''dague'' was a derivation from German ''dagge'', ''dagen , although not attested until a much later date). The knightly dagger evolves from the 12th century. Guillaume le Breton (died 1226) uses daca'' in his ''Philippide''. Other Middle Latin forms include ''daga, dagga, dagha, dagger, daggerius, daggerium, dagarium, dagarius, diga''http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/DAGGER; the forms with ''-r- are late 14th century adoptions of the English word). OED points out that there is also an English verb from which this could be a derivation, but the verb is attested only from about 1400. Relation to Old Armenian .
Noun
(en noun)- I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; ...
- The dagger , under the title cultellum and misericorde, has been the constant companion of the sword, at least from the days of Edward I. and is mentioned in the statute of Winchester.